A man got out of a white pickup and tried to kidnap a 14-year-old girl who was riding her bicycle home Wednesday night, but she was able to get away, La Mesa police said.

The incident was reported at 6:23 p.m. on Dallas Street at the intersection of Nagel Street.

The girl was riding her bike on the sidewalk, heading east on Dallas, when she said the man jumped out of the parked truck and lunged at her in an attempt to pull her off the bike, police Sgt. Bret Richards said. The man missed, but he ran after the girl for a short time as she kept riding the bike. She was not injured.

She told her parents about the assailant after getting home.

He was described as being of mixed race, believed to be black and white; 20 to 30 years old; and 5 feet 8 inches tall with a stocky build. He was wearing a red and white jacket and a black baseball cap with an unknown logo.

The pickup was described as a newer model, medium-sized, with a white camper shell.

Anyone with information is asked to call La Mesa police at (619) 667-1400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at (888) 580-8477.

Susan Shroder • U-T

Woman arrested on suspicion of DUI after she hits cop car, flees

SAN DIEGO

A suspected drunken driver involved in a hit-and-run crash with a San Diego police cruiser in City Heights was arrested early Wednesday.

The two unoccupied patrol cars were parked on El Cajon Boulevard near 50th Street about 12:15 a.m. when a driver in an SUV slammed into one of them and kept driving, police Lt. Andra Brown said.

The four officers were not in the cars at the time and were not injured, Brown said.

Two officers in the undamaged car pursued the SUV and pulled it over.

The driver, identified as Robin Sue Griswold, was taken into custody on suspicion of drunken driving and booked into jail, Brown said.

Chula Vista police cite 24 drivers for cellphone use during lookout

Officers were on special lookout for distracted drivers around the city between 12:30 and 4:30 p.m., police Capt. Gary Wedge said.

They stopped 41 drivers and cited 19 of them for talking on cellphones and five for texting. Six others were cited for various other vehicle code violations and two drivers were found to be unlicensed, Wedge said.

The vehicle of one of the unlicensed drivers was impounded.

Wedge said drivers sometimes become distracted by eating, drinking, reading maps, using electronic devices such as a GPS or MP3 players, or paying too much attention to a passenger or a pet.

Pauline Repard • U-T

2 adults, 2 children lose Rolando home to fire; floor furnace blamed

San Diego

Two adults and two children lost their Rolando home to a fire ignited Wednesday by a faulty furnace, San Diego fire officials said.